Walking Sydney Town Hall to ANZAC Bridge and return

May 8, 2011 by Brad

This afternoon I decided to walk across ANZAC Bridge. Almost every weekend I stretch my legs over the Sydney Harbour Bridge but today I decided it was time for a change.

Walking from Town Hall to ANZAC Bridge I got myself a little bit lost through the back streets of Pyrmont but eventually managed to find the pedestrian access to the bridge.

The bridge is a marvel. When Sydney builds something they typically do it in a way that simply takes your breathe away. I simply love the fact that all the major Sydney landmarks are easily accessible by foot it is something that other cities (hint hint Auckland) still need to learn.

Overall the walk from Town Hall across the Bridge and return took just over an hour and is about 6km. It is a decent but busy walk but is a lot less tourist crazy than the Harbour Bridge.

Below are some photos I took along the way.

Recovering from Grub Rescue after upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04

April 4, 2011 by Brad

Over the weekend I upgraded one of my computers to the new beta of Ubuntu. Upon restarting the computer I got dumped into grub-rescue with the message missing-xputs. Part of the cause of this was having Adobe CS3 installed in my dual boot with Windows 7.

When you install Adobe products a little DRM program called FlexNet gets installed into your boot sector which is also where grub resides. When grub is upgraded along with Ubuntu it flicks a warning about the FlexNet being in the sector but then continues to install. However, when you restart grub will not run and will be unable to boot your system into either Ubuntu or Windows.

Photos: Hiking Wentworth Falls

March 27, 2011 by Brad

Yesterday, I hiked Wentworth Falls and the Valley of the Waters for the second time. It is pretty quickly becoming my favourite one day Blue Mountains hiking track.

This time through we started on the Charles Darwin Walk, down the falls, then down the Slack Stairs, through Valley of Wentworth Pass, up the Empress Falls along the Overcliff Walk and then back along Charles Darwin. Finally, we caught a train to Katoomba walked down to Echo Point at sunset and ended up having dinner at a Pub before getting back into Sydney just before 11pm. A very long but awesome day.

Photos: Waterfall to Otford via The Coast Track

March 13, 2011 by Brad

Yesterday nine friends and I walked from Waterfall to Garie Beach via the Couranga Track, and then through to Otford via the The Coast Track and The Cliff Track. All up it is about 20km and took us nine hours.

Photos: Featherdale Wildlife Park, Blue Mountains and Circular Quay

February 26, 2011 by Brad

One big long day. A lot of fun.

Photos: Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary 2 in Sydney

February 24, 2011 by Brad

On Tuesday both the Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary 2 super cruise ships were in Sydney. I went down to the harbour to get some photos after work.

Both ships are absolutely huge. But what I was surprised by is that they were not as big as I was expecting. I think these days man’s quest for bigger, stronger, faster, further is almost complete so we are so used to seeing big things that they don’t take your breathe away as much as in the past. Having said that these ships dwarf everything else.

Photos: Hunter Valley and Central Coast NSW Roadtrip

February 10, 2011 by Brad

I went with two of my friends to the Hunter Valley. From there we worked our way through to Lake Macquarie and then onto Norah Head. An awesome one day road trip.